RE: RPG instruction

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Suppose you taught only RPGIV and ILE, with no consideration of
RPG/400.  A student graduating from your school would not be prepared for
JD Edwards Worldsoftware, which is still written in RPG/400.

I don't agree with this.  The thing to remember here is that RPG IV is a
_superset_ of RPG/400.  As long as the school teaches an RPG/400 wrap-up to
highlight to the students what they _can't_ do in RPG/400 then where is the
problem?  In what way would learning RPG IV not prepare you to be able to
understand such RPG/400 code?  Surely you should teach the highest level
and they will adapt to the lower levels if they have to.

Most of the schools I've worked with now teach RPG IV with a short "here's
some old stuff you'll come across" section at the end to deal with RPG/400.

Too many AS/400 shops are behind the times as it is - why on earth would we
want the schools to encourage that tendency?



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